Ari Joskowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ari Joskowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ari |
| FAMILY NAME | Joskowicz |
| SIGNATURE | JOSKOWICZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward a New Integrated History of Roma and Jews in Nazi-Controlled Europe
Scholars have juxtaposed genocide in four ways: they compare them; they incorporate them into a single master narrative; they offer causal explanations linking the emergence of one genocidal campaign to another; or they focus on relations between victim groups. Building on the essays in this journal issue, this article explores how new research on Roma and Jews can help us break with some common arguments in Holocaust studies that emerge from the…
Celia Donert, The Rights of the Roma
The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance
For over half a century, historians have made ample use of witness testimonies. Efforts to preserve the accounts of marginalized people in particular have broadened the range of voices available to us and significantly expanded the field. Yet we have paid too little attention to the potentially disturbing consequences of the creation and distribution of such testimonies. Focusing on the experiences of Romani Holocaust survivors, this essay argues…
H eiko H aumann . Die Akte Zilli Reichmann
In Die Akte Zilli Reichmann, Heiko Haumann aims to do two things: to introduce readers to the twentieth-century history of German Sinti (the largest group of German Romanies, who are often referred to by the pejorative terms “Gypsies” and “Zigeuner”) and to write the biography of a German Sinti woman whose life spanned that century. It does both with considerable success. As a biography, Haumann’s work stands out in a field that has struggled to …
Toleration in the Age of Projects
This essay offers an alternative genealogy of modern debates on Jews, focusing on the rise of new ideas about Jews’ role in society among eighteenth-century German technocratic thinkers. Drawing on recent work in science and technology studies, it examines how major debates on Jews took place not only earlier than is usually assumed but also in disciplines—namely, cameralism and police science—that were despised by most of the humanistic enlighte…
Response to Our Critics
Secularism in Question
Secularism in Question examines how twentieth-century revivals of religion prompt a reconsideration of many issues concerning Jews and Judaism in the modern era. Scholars of Jewish history, religion, philosophy, and literature illustrate how the categories of "religious" and "secular" have frequently proven far more permeable than fixed
Romani Refugees and the Postwar Order
Scholarship on Romani (Gypsy) migration has typically focused either on longue durée patterns of persecution and marginalization or on Roma migrants within Europe since the fall of communism. This article shows how the westward migration of Roma after the Second World War and during the early years of the Cold War breaks with several common assumptions about the history of displaced persons, refugees, and Roma alike. Contrary to claims about unbr…
Karel Plessini. The Perils of Normalcy
Journal Article Karel Plessini. The Perils of Normalcy: George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History. Get access Karel Plessini. The Perils of Normalcy: George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History. (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. Pp. x, 284. Paper $34.95, e-book $24.95. Ari Joskowicz Ari Joskowicz Vanderbilt University a.joskowicz@vanderb…
Selma the Jewish Seer
This article discusses the importance of spiritualism and mysticism for nineteenth-century German Jews though the lens of a book about a Jewish female clairvoyant in 1830s Berlin. In 1838, Morris Wiener published Selma, die jüdische Seherin, a widely read story about his sister's miraculous healing and prophetic visions after being treated by a physician specializing in Mesmerism. This article proposes that we consider Selma's unusual story as an…
The Modernity of Others
The Modernity of Others
The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jews’ adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become modern by criticizing the anti-modern positions of the Catholic Church. Drawing attention to the pervasiveness of anti-Catholic anticlericalism amo…
German City, Jewish Memory
Journal Article German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms Get access German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms. By Nils Roemer. Waltham and Hannover, MA: Brandeis University Press and University Press of New England. 2010. x + 316 pp. £35.00 (paperback). Ari Joskowicz Ari Joskowicz Vanderbilt University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 3,…
The Priest, the Woman, and the Jewish Family
In 1844, the Jewish physician Lazard Terquem received a Catholic baptism on his deathbed in Paris. His Jewish relatives and various Jewish leaders challenged this conversion, claiming that the barely conscious man had been baptized against his will. While the affair began as a scandal about a man, the Jewish press quickly turned its attention to the earlier conversion of Terquem's wife and daughters. The ensuing controversy-which also extended to…
Visionen der gerechten Gesellschaft
Journal Article Visionen der gerechten Gesellschaft: Der Diskurs der deutsch-jüdischen Publizistik im 19. Jahrhundert Get access Visionen der gerechten Gesellschaft: Der Diskurs der deutsch-jüdischen Publizistik im 19. Jahrhundert. By Michael Brocke, Margarete Jäger, Siegfried Jäger, Jobst Paul and Iris Tonks. Cologne: Böhlau. 2009. 200 pp. €24.90 (hardback). Alexander Joskowicz Alexander Joskowicz Vanderbilt University Search for other works by …
Romani Refugees and the Postwar Order
Scholarship on Romani (Gypsy) migration has typically focused either on longue durée patterns of persecution and marginalization or on Roma migrants within Europe since the fall of communism. This article shows how the westward migration of Roma after the Second World War and during the early years of the Cold War breaks with several common assumptions about the history of displaced persons, refugees, and Roma alike. Contrary to claims about unbr…
Visionen der gerechten Gesellschaft
Journal Article Visionen der gerechten Gesellschaft: Der Diskurs der deutsch-jüdischen Publizistik im 19. Jahrhundert Get access Visionen der gerechten Gesellschaft: Der Diskurs der deutsch-jüdischen Publizistik im 19. Jahrhundert. By Michael Brocke, Margarete Jäger, Siegfried Jäger, Jobst Paul and Iris Tonks. Cologne: Böhlau. 2009. 200 pp. €24.90 (hardback). Alexander Joskowicz Alexander Joskowicz Vanderbilt University Search for other works by …
The Priest, the Woman, and the Jewish Family
In 1844, the Jewish physician Lazard Terquem received a Catholic baptism on his deathbed in Paris. His Jewish relatives and various Jewish leaders challenged this conversion, claiming that the barely conscious man had been baptized against his will. While the affair began as a scandal about a man, the Jewish press quickly turned its attention to the earlier conversion of Terquem's wife and daughters. The ensuing controversy-which also extended to…
German City, Jewish Memory
Journal Article German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms Get access German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms. By Nils Roemer. Waltham and Hannover, MA: Brandeis University Press and University Press of New England. 2010. x + 316 pp. £35.00 (paperback). Ari Joskowicz Ari Joskowicz Vanderbilt University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 3,…
The Modernity of Others
The Modernity of Others
The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jews’ adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become modern by criticizing the anti-modern positions of the Catholic Church. Drawing attention to the pervasiveness of anti-Catholic anticlericalism amo…
Selma the Jewish Seer
This article discusses the importance of spiritualism and mysticism for nineteenth-century German Jews though the lens of a book about a Jewish female clairvoyant in 1830s Berlin. In 1838, Morris Wiener published Selma, die jüdische Seherin, a widely read story about his sister's miraculous healing and prophetic visions after being treated by a physician specializing in Mesmerism. This article proposes that we consider Selma's unusual story as an…
Secularism in Question
Secularism in Question examines how twentieth-century revivals of religion prompt a reconsideration of many issues concerning Jews and Judaism in the modern era. Scholars of Jewish history, religion, philosophy, and literature illustrate how the categories of "religious" and "secular" have frequently proven far more permeable than fixed
Romani Refugees and the Postwar Order
Scholarship on Romani (Gypsy) migration has typically focused either on longue durée patterns of persecution and marginalization or on Roma migrants within Europe since the fall of communism. This article shows how the westward migration of Roma after the Second World War and during the early years of the Cold War breaks with several common assumptions about the history of displaced persons, refugees, and Roma alike. Contrary to claims about unbr…
Karel Plessini. The Perils of Normalcy
Journal Article Karel Plessini. The Perils of Normalcy: George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History. Get access Karel Plessini. The Perils of Normalcy: George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History. (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. Pp. x, 284. Paper $34.95, e-book $24.95. Ari Joskowicz Ari Joskowicz Vanderbilt University a.joskowicz@vanderb…
Response to Our Critics
Toleration in the Age of Projects
This essay offers an alternative genealogy of modern debates on Jews, focusing on the rise of new ideas about Jews’ role in society among eighteenth-century German technocratic thinkers. Drawing on recent work in science and technology studies, it examines how major debates on Jews took place not only earlier than is usually assumed but also in disciplines—namely, cameralism and police science—that were despised by most of the humanistic enlighte…
H eiko H aumann . Die Akte Zilli Reichmann
In Die Akte Zilli Reichmann, Heiko Haumann aims to do two things: to introduce readers to the twentieth-century history of German Sinti (the largest group of German Romanies, who are often referred to by the pejorative terms “Gypsies” and “Zigeuner”) and to write the biography of a German Sinti woman whose life spanned that century. It does both with considerable success. As a biography, Haumann’s work stands out in a field that has struggled to …
Celia Donert, The Rights of the Roma
The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance
For over half a century, historians have made ample use of witness testimonies. Efforts to preserve the accounts of marginalized people in particular have broadened the range of voices available to us and significantly expanded the field. Yet we have paid too little attention to the potentially disturbing consequences of the creation and distribution of such testimonies. Focusing on the experiences of Romani Holocaust survivors, this essay argues…
Toward a New Integrated History of Roma and Jews in Nazi-Controlled Europe
Scholars have juxtaposed genocide in four ways: they compare them; they incorporate them into a single master narrative; they offer causal explanations linking the emergence of one genocidal campaign to another; or they focus on relations between victim groups. Building on the essays in this journal issue, this article explores how new research on Roma and Jews can help us break with some common arguments in Holocaust studies that emerge from the…
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